Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Horace Mann Bond, Lincoln (enrollment: 315) will reciprocate, open its doors to "all races." ¶Resignation of the week: Earl J. McGrath, 50, as U.S. Commissioner of Education (after four years of service). Though due to be replaced anyway, McGrath had his own reason for quitting: the 10% slash in his proposed $88,876,370 budget is "indefensible...
Fawcett, with an ear slash and a badly bruised face, was able to walk under his own power and was not held for observation at the hospital...
Death in the Night. For three hours the orgy lasted, and by the time help arrived, more than 300 were dead. Mothers were forced to watch as their children were decapitated by repeated blows of an ax. One woman saw the murderers slash her son's throat and drink his blood as he died. Among the charred remains, left for vulture and stork, police found bones so horribly mutilated that it was often impossible to tell which belonged to animals and which to men. All that was left of Chief Luka was his feet...
...operate the six special school buses in the northwestern suburban area decided they'd had enough, announced that they hoped never again to have to drive a carload of schoolkids. Their union thought they had valid reasons for their strike. Among them: two boys had threatened to slash one driver with switch-knives unless he drove them directly to their destination; a group of girls had stripped another girl and thrown her panties into the street; students had a habit of hanging smaller kids out windows, of slashing cushions, unscrewing seats, pulling emergency cords, exploding firecrackers, throwing lighted cigarettes...
...rate will be $48.60 as compared with last year's $52,30. Curry said it was the biggest slash in the history of Cambridge's 107-year incorporation...